As a midwestern-raised girl: god bless this place....

As a midwestern-raised girl: god bless this place. This is no Old Country Buffet. This is a true SF-style buffet (think quinoa at the salad bar) and tender slices of meat, but you can definitely feed a midwestern appetite here.

As a girl raised by a Chinese mother: okay you're at a buffet - so how to maximize value? When you sit down, you're probably pretty decently hungry. You are first invited to go fill up at the salad bar (a must, because that's where you get the plate to consume the food).

Don't. Go. Crazy.

Don't go fill up that plate with everything delicious looking at the bar (paella, sauteed eggplant, spinach salad, quinoa with cranberries, rice, fish, etc.) Then when you get back to the table, don't eat all the delicious carb-alicious appetizers they sit in front of you (fried plaintains, cheesy bread, etc.) Because you're going to want to fill up on meat. Or at least I did. Sorry, but I was brought up to only eat the lobster, fish, and shrimp at any buffet. Basically, I'm not popular at buffets.

There's a little circle in front of you that's a dial that goes green for "yes meat" and red for "no I'm stuffed". Now turn that dial to GREEN.

Meat will come every two minutes. Savor and eat. Then wait. Then keep going. You'll get chicken sausage (good), filet mignon (good), garlic butter steak (omgomgomg), sirlon steak (kinda chewy), etc.

Oh and no shrimp and other stuff at lunch. So FYI the lunch menu is a bit more limited.

PS - Service is ON POINT. I spilled some coffee and a waiter immediately noticed and brought me soda water to clean up my skirt. Within seconds. Amazing.